Oswald Chambers Quotes
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The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through us. God calls us to His service and places tremendous responsibilities on us. He expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part. God wants to use us as He used His own Son.
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Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, "every one that asketh receiveth."
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Let God fling you out (as seed), and do not go until He does. If you select your own spot, you will prove an empty pod. If God sows you, you will bring forth fruit.
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God nowhere tells us to give up things for the sake of giving them up. He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having - viz., life with Himself. It is a question of loosening the bonds that hinder the life.
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God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
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Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.
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Our natural virtues can never come anywhere near what Jesus Christ wants.
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Live in a constant state of expectancy, and leave room for God to come in as He decides.
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It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of all self-considerat ion and learn to care about only one thing-the relationship between Christ and ourselves.
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The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in his motives, having been made good by the supernatural grace of God.
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If we are obsessed by God, nothing else can get into our lives - not concerns, nor tribulation, not worries.
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We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails.
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Never believe that the so-called random events of life are anything less than God’s appointed order. Be ready to discover His divine designs anywhere and everywhere.
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The call of God is to preach the gospel--namely, the reality of redemption in our Lord Jesus Christ. The one passion of Paul's life was to proclaim the gospel of God. He welcomed heartbreak, disillusionment , and tribulation for only one reason--these things kept him unmovable in his devotion to the gospel of God.
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A private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential element of spiritual fitness.
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Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that is not of God in us.
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If you have become bitter and sour, it is because when God gave you a blessing you hoarded it. Yet if you had poured it out to Him, you would have been the sweetest person on earth. If you are always keeping blessings to yourself and never learning to pour out anything “to the Lord,” other people will never have their vision of God expanded through you.
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The whole idea of the prayers of the saints is that God's holiness, God's purpose, God's ways may be brought about irrespective of who comes or goes.
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We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.
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God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.
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The resentment of discipline of any kind will warp the whole life away from God's purpose.
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Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.
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I have no right to say I believe in God unless I order my life as under His all-seeing Eye.
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God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.